Folder as an archive by E-Mail
With each E-Mail, you can pack the files in the attachment, and you with your message to send. Whole folder this way, but not upload. For this to work, you must pack the folder first to a so-called archive.
- To do this, click with the right mouse button in Windows to the desired folder and select "Send to" item, "ZIP-Compressed folder". Windows then compressed all the files and created a ZIP file of your folder. This file contains all the data of the folder, you can send as usual. The receiver has to the archive and then unzipthe folder content access to.
- Under MacOS , you can also Board means create a ZIP archive. To do this, click with the right mouse button on the folder and select the "objects to compact from".
- If you have your ZIP file with password protect you want to, you can use a Tool like 7-Zip access. Here are other archive formats such as RAR or 7-ZIP to compress your files even smaller.
Compressed folder send
Folder send via Cloud services
In most cases, you send your folders as a ZIP-file is the fastest. In the case of E-Mails there are, but the one Problem Is your ZIP-archives larger than 20 MB, you can no longer submit. In this case, you can switch to Cloud storage such as Dropbox, Owncloud or OneDrive. All of the cloud storage work in a similar way. We will explain the procedure here is the example from Dropbox:
- First of all, you need to a free Account at Dropbox to create, and the service set up. You can then copy your folder in the Cloud. Dropbox stores the data on its servers.
- Then enter the folder for other free. The recipient can then access it from the Internet to your folder and download the files. You have sent the folder so practical.
- Even simpler is the free Service of "work upload". You can open the website in your Browser, and then drag the complete folder content in the blue box on the website. IN the field "E-Mail" enter the e-Mail address of your contact. On the "share Now" to send you finally a Link to all of your uploaded data.
Work upload: folder send
As you large attachments with the iPhone send can, we show in another article.
